The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-20
Notes and Opinions.

Mr.. BLAINE has nearly recovered
from his illness and will be in Chicago
to-day.
IT is announced that Edison, the
inventor, is hopelessly ill with lung
disease.
TIE New York Leader, the labor or
gan, declares that the democratic party
is about to die.
IT is reported that the r. Y. wants
to secure religious paper. We don't
know of a concern that needs one more
WE are surprised to learn from the
Mortified Ne,cs that the Argus is using
"plate matter" We had not noticed it.
NIHIL1sM and socialism can never
flourish in a country where soap is so
largely advertised and sold as in
America. Omaha Palladium.
CATER Paul Boyton floats down the
Hudson in ice-water and lays up for
months with the rheumatism, what will
be gained by it?"-Chicogo Inter- Ocean,
Experience.
ONE of the first effects of the inter-
state commerce law in Maine promises
to be the diversion of large part of
the railroad traffic to the steamers
Portland Advertiser.
SENATOR SHERMAN, in his letter to
the young republicans of Philadelphia,
said: Every measure should be sup
ported that will tend to foster, defend
and protect home industries"
Mr.. EDWARD ATKINSON thinks the
interstate commerce law is mischiev-
Gus interference with the natural laws
of trade and will cause more injury and
discomfort than it will relieve.
EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER tells
the Denver Tribune that the New York
republicans will unanimously support
the party's presidential candidate,
whether it is Blaine, Sherman, Evarts
or some other man.
Mr.. CURTIS says: Mr.. Cleveland
would be better president if it were
not for his party" This is funny. 1t
probably occurs to most people that
elf it were not for his party" he
would not be president at all.-COncord
| Monitor.
THERE are lots of little men in this
country who think that they are at least
big enough to be vice-president. But
no man ought to be vice-president who
isn't great enough to be president.
That ought to be political axiom
Springfield Union.
THE cabinet selected by Franklin
Pierce and confirmed by the senate on
the 9th and 18th of March, 1858, served
for the full term of their chief. being
the only cabinet in our history in which
there was no break or change during the
four years term of the administration.
JUDGE COOLEY says that the suspen-
sion of the long and short-haul clause
of the interstate law was due to the
necessity for time in considering the
important problem involved, and not
from wish to favorthe southern roads.
He did not think this involved in Justice
to northern lines.
IN the construction of the interstate
commerce law does a democratic state
with sparse population of voters pre-
sent substantially dissimilar state of
circumstances to a thickly populated
republican state, with many railroads
and manufacturing Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette.
THE spring strikes this year appear
to be seasoned with more wisdom than
last year. There is more disposition to
concession and less desire to stop the
wheels of industry on the rule-or-ruin
policy. Many workers are looking more
at facts and listening less to the windy
bowls of professional agitators. Man
chester Union.
THE civil service reformers' long
drawn out review of the so-called civil
service reform and apology for the
democratic administration amounts
when boiled down, to this: "Things
are not looking as well as they might
and we didn't expect they would, but
we ought to be profoundly thankful that
things are no worse. "-Sprinqfeld
Union.
II is expected that five men shall not
only at once understand the confused
mass of rates of thousand or so cor
porations, but that they shall do this
through all the changes these corpora.
tons shall make from week to week
and from month to month. The law
makers meant well, but it is becoming
more and more clear that they didn't
know.-BOStOn Traveller.
A WASHINGTON special of April IL
says: "W. w. Corcoran, eighty-siS
years of age, called upon Senator Justin
S. Morrill,, seventy-siX years of age
yesterday, and remarked that he hoped
to see Senator Morrill, ten years hence.
DIR. j. ii. Baxter sent magnificent
basket of La France roses, which stood
some four feet high. The senator hello
no formal reception in honor of his
birthday, but was at home to all callers
Mrs. Morrill, was assisted by her sister
! Mrs. Swan, and Miss Hatch of Chicago